I need to remind myself

how different the euphoria of completing a draft—catching ideas before they dissipate, adding new elements that get a story closer to what it wants to be—is from the cool sense of realizing a story is no longer mine to fiddle with, and that I’ll only muddy it if I do.

More difficult for me to reconcile myself to: a 4,000-6,000 word story may take me a year or more.

12.03.11
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#I have sent out so many pieces before their time #writing #lit crit #The Writing Life

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